Lamentations 5:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷Our ancestors sinned; they are no more,
    and we bear their iniquities.
⁸Slaves rule over us;
    there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
    because of the sword in the wilderness.

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